Watch This Guy’s Evil Prank Blow Up in His Face

Prankster Roman Atwood has a large YouTube following: 2.3 million subscribers and over 310 million views. Still, few of his prank videos blow up quite like the one from last week.

Last week, Atwood made a revelation to his girlfriend … that didn't go according to plan. It exploded, generating 26.8 million views last week. according to the latest data from VidIQ, and was shared nearly 85,000 times. The next biggest clip on the VideoWatch/VidIQ chart was Epic Rap Battles of History's faceoff between Picasso and Bob Ross, which pulled in over 5 million views.

Check out Atwood's mishap here:

NOTE: Adweek’s VideoWatch Chart, powered by VidIQ, reveals the Top 10 Web Series Videos on YouTube every week. The chart tracks more than just pure views; VidIQ incorporates sharing data from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, among other data sources, in an effort to measure true engagement. Every video is also ranked with VidIQ's proprietary score, which helps judge the likelihood of a video being promoted in YouTube Related Videos, Search and Recommended Videos. The ranking is also meant to capture "born-on-the-Web" YouTube content. Thus, material like clips from TV shows, movie trailers, video games and music videos are not included.